St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-04
A CHAPTER ON WIGS.
What They Cost and How They
Are BuiIt-A Cute Appeal to the

w hdt IUcy SOSC anu HOW 1ncy
Are Built-A Cute Appeal to the
Ladies.
1t seems rather odd to threaten man
with neuralgia and cold in the head at
this time of the year, but that is what
the wigmakerS of this town are doing
just now to everyone who wears bald
spot even as small as silver dollar.
Some kind and humorous friend sent
the writer wig manufacturers cata-
logue, with note advising him to lay it
up against rainy day. The young
man went forth and had speech
with the maker of matches, and
tie reader, a word or two about
wigs. Starting off with a plain weft
wig at SIS, you can run up scale of
prices that ends at $50 for men and at
500 for women. The Wigmaker doesn't
call himself a wigmaker nowadays. Far
be it from him: He is the proprietor of
an Establishment Francois, wherein are
designed and created toupees. bandeauX
and like appurtenanceS, (which possess
the valuable desideratum of combining
naturalneSS and durability" Why, do
you ask, are all these fine English, Latin
and French words thrown at the tremb-
ling baldheaded man? Merely in order
to reassure him and awaken the idea in
plated new wig will fool all beholders
by its glossiness even as the polyglot
tumble leaves him in the dark as to
what the wig creator is driving at.
The man of moderate means who has
tarried too long at play with the Arapa-
hoes and comes home without any COW
ering for his pate ought to buy plain
weft wig, price SIS. If he be elderly, it
will cost him from SIG to 800, according
to the grayness thereof. He can get
like wig with gauZe seam for $50, or,
if he is proud and naughty, with fat
bank account, he may take fancy to
the welt wig. with a hair net seam at
S25. Gray wigs of the latter styles cost
pilatory art, however, is the ventilating
wig, with hair-net seam, from S35 up to
$50. 1t weighs only an ounce and a
quarter, is made with crochet
needles and has naive innocence and
glossy WavineSS that would fool the
most hardened cynicS. Even the apart"
of ordinary, homegrown hair is faith
fully initiated in it. Toupees are simply
scalp wigs and run In size from as big
as silver dollar to the area of an ordi-
nary pie plate. They are fastened to
the head by means of patent sticky
preparation and they never fall off, no
matter how hard the wind may blow.
The price varies from SO to S25. If
gray-haired man INDUCES in one he has
to pay higher than anybody else.
As for ladies wigs, hear the manu-
facturer's cute little appeal. He says
he desires respectfully to inform
ladies who may need these well-devised
and cunningly artificial means of con-
cealing the loss of that hair which is
Justly considered one, at least, of their
glOries. that they may come to him with
the fullest confidence and reliance that
he can successfully supply their need,
and help them to the conviction, when
they behold themselves in their mirrors,
that the loss which they have sustained
has been, as far as. possible, and GER
tainly to all appearances, successfully
restored.
s'He further desires to say that the
prices of these wigs vary according to
the color and length of the hair and the
quality of workmanship, from $40 to
500. Orders may be sent by letter,
with measurement.
Ladies' whose hair is thin on top of
the head only can be supplied with
suitable front-piece, and in cases where
the bald spot is large, with half-wig,
having hair which falls towards the
back, and can be fastened in with the
natural hair of the wearer. The prices
of these half-wigs are from $40 to $50"